From: sto.mar@...
Date: 2012-11-20T04:02:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing Something

Am 19.11.2012 19:26, schrieb Ron S.:
> Jesus -
>
> You know exactly what I am getting at. Thank you for the reply. I will
> keep slogging away and hoping it gets easier. I am glad to have
> confirmation for what I suspected: That it is possible for a program to
> organically develop out of a linear sort of stack-oriented approach. I

Growing and restructuring / refactoring is the normal way.

> still don't see the advantage to bundling methods with objects. I guess
> I still think Commodore 64 style! I don't see why I shouldn't keep
> methods and objects separate is what I am saying. Methods as functions
> and objects as collections of arrays.

One advantage: try working with functions that depend on half a dozen
of parameters (and need to be called with half a dozen of arguments)
and compare with a method that can simply use the instance variables.

[...]

Tip: for a nicer and more robust way to handle command line options
have a look at the OptionParser class.


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